Merck KGaA’s says cancer vaccine safe in study

Date May 30, 2009

Debi wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Merck KGaA’s experimental cancer vaccine Stimuvax proved safe to use in a long-term Phase II study on lung cancer patients, the German drugmaker said on Saturday.
The trial showed that patients’ immune systems did not turn on normal cells, a major concern in new vaccines that are designed to prime the body’s immune system to detect and attack cancer cells.

Read the rest of this great post here

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